By my friend Dustin. open.substack.com/pub/onwritin...
@elliottcoates
Writer, photographer, musician, hockey coach, traveler, chronic pain; fan of birds, esoteric books, Dada, Toronto sports. Canadian expat in VA. 2021 SAIC Writing Fellow. First poetry collection, “Day 3 of a 5 Day Headache” (2nd ed.) sold out.
You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen
The biggest rush in the world is seeing that you’ve been outbid for something moronic you bid on while drunken eBaying. Thank Christ I don’t have to pay for that beer tap handle for a home pub (that I don’t have) in the shape of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Exhilaration! Congrats on the win, homepubguy1975!
Elliott with a Carlsberg.
A Carlsberg in a wine glass.
Putting a Carlsberg in a wine glass makes (1) it fancy, and (2) you fancy. I don’t make the rules.
Good riddance.
#TradeDeadline How does anyone in the Leafs org still have a job?
I hate the fucking Maple Leafs.
Never has a team held their fans in such disdain.
White text on a black background, “America I love you but you’re freaking me out.” A song by the Menzingers.
I will happily ghostwrite this memoir for you.
Mellon Collie is our generation’s White Album, and I’m willing to die on that hill.
This is getting WILD.
It’s 9:03a and I’m out here in the world losing friends! Let’s go!
How cool! As a Leafs fan, love seeing the little girl wearing the Leafs jersey in the middle. 😂♥️
I had never internalized this awful truth. I weep for us.
Botticelli just hits different.
Remains true.
Is this how you feel right now?
It’s the excellent hockey takes. Certified puck knower ™️.
WeLcOmE tO SaNdWiCh HeAvEn! (And yeah the cars are huge, eh?)
British people HATE foxes.
Hell yeah.
A snowy street.
This snow is just the universe weeping for Team Canada. 🇨🇦
If you don’t have a master’s degree, customers don’t have to tip.
Seconded. Agree on both point one (cool!) and point two ($75 is wild for a t-shirt) of your thesis.
Without any context whatsoever, I’m gonna guess:
Wayne Gretzky.
CANADA IS GOING TO THE GOLD MEDAL GAME! 🇨🇦 🥇
CANADA COMES BACK TO BEAT FINLAND!
#MilanoCortina2026
This animal speaks to me.